Under the Sea!

I visited Mom and Dad and Timbo in Utah for a week and it was lovely!   I relaxed and watched movies and read books.  I started cleaning out my room (which I did not finish, but I got a good start).  I hung out with Dad, Mom and Tim.  I visited with a couple of old friends and went to a few new places. 

 

The Living Planet Aquarium was one of the new places I visited with Timbo.  I liked it.  It was pretty small and some of the tanks did not have signs there to tell us what we were looking at, but I liked it any way.  It had some cool fishies.  

 

Like this one. It did not have a sign near it but we thought these were awesome looking fish. 

See the black, round spiky thing?!  Well that's a sea urchin.  Isn't it cool looking?!

Can you guess what this fish is without looking at the next picture?  And yes the fish really glowed like that. 

 

The fish above is a red piranha. I imagined piranhas differently.  I think I expected them to have bigger teeth, but this piranha did not have big teeth.

They had penguins at the aquarium.  They were fun to watch as they waddled around with their wings out and played with one another.  They were cute.

 

Although it's hard to see the otters in this picture, they are there.  I had no idea that otters lived in the Provo River.  These otters did not come from the river, but they are the same kind that live there. They were a lot of fun to watch.  They're brothers and they wrestled a lot and went down the slide a couple of times. 

Tim touched a stingray.  I was not brave enough nor did I have any desire to touch it.  Go Tim! 

Look at this amphibious fish on the land with no legs.  And his eyes bulge out of his head.  It was so weird to me.   Look at the picture below to learn a little more about the mudskipper.

An axlotl.  This was also weird to me.  Essentially it's a water salamander. Read below to read more about it. 

There were also seahorses and an octopus and cockroaches and an anaconda and rainforest frogs and jelly fish and small sharks.  It took us a little over an hour to see everything and we even went back to see the otters and the penguins twice.   I thought our little adventure to the aquarium was worth it. Thanks Tim for coming with me.